There was no Thanksgiving holiday reprieve for the management of independent studio Lionsgate Entertainment, as activist investor Carl Icahn, who holds a third of the Tinseltown studio’s shares, made his bid to replace its board members with a slew of outsiders.

Icahn is involved in a hostile bid for the firm, which produces TV show “Mad Men,” and will push other investors to support his slate ahead of the Dec. 14 stockholders’ meeting.

Icahn’s slate includes Chris McGurk, a former chief of MGM and Liberty Media’s Ovation.

According to filings, McGurk would be joined by Jay Firestone, Michael Dornemann, Daniel Ninivaggi and Harold Shapiro.

Firestone is a Canadian media executive, while Dornemann is a director of videogame company Take-Two Interactive and onetime chief at Bertelsmann Entertainment. Ninivaggi is president of Icahn Enterprises, while Shapiro is a professor of economics at Princeton.

Separately, on Wednesday, MGM, which is moving through bankruptcy proceedings, also named new board members, including digital expert Jason Hirschhorn. The other board members hail from the studio’s major creditors, while a ninth board member from the entertainment sphere is yet to be named.

Icahn is pressing to merge MGM with Lionsgate. He owns pieces of both companies.